RE: [Nolug] converting 486SX - correction

Try Tom's Root Boot (tomsrtbt). You'll get vi with it.

http://www.toms.net/rb/

Actually, you'll get all this:

What you have is... AHA152X AHA1542 AIC7XXX BUSLOGIC DAC960 DEC_ELCP(TULIP)
EATA EEXPRESS/PRO/PRO100 EL2 EL3 EXT2 EXT3 FAT FD IDE-CD/DISK/TAPE IMM INITRD
ISO9660 JOLIET LOOP MATH_EMULATION MINIX MSDOS NCR53C8XX NE2000 NFS NTFS
PARPORT PCINE2K PCNET32 PLIP PPA RTL8139 SD SERIAL/_CONSOLE SLIP SMC_ULTRA SR
ST VFAT VID_SELECT VORTEX WD80x3 .exrc 3c589_cs agetty ash badblocks basename
boot.b buildit.s busybox bz2bzImage bzip2 cardmgr cardmgr.pid cat chain.b
chattr chgrp chmod chown chroot clear clone.s cmp common config cp cpio cs
cut date dd dd-lfs debugfs ddate df dhcpcd-- dirname dmesg domainname ds du
dumpe2fs e2fsck echo egrep elvis ex false fdflush fdformat fdisk filesize
find findsuper fmt fstab grep group gunzip gzip halt head hexdump hexedit
host.conf hostname hosts httpd i82365 ifconfig ile init inittab insmod
install.s issue kernel key.lst kill killall killall5 ld ld-linux length
less libc libcom_err libe2p libext2fs libtermcap libuuid lilo lilo.conf ln
loadkmap login ls lsattr lsmod lua luasocket man map md5sum miterm mkdir
mkdosfs mke2fs mkfifo mkfs.minix mknod mkswap more more.help mount mt mtab mv
nc necho network networks nmclan_cs nslookup passwd pax pcmcia_core pcnet_cs
pidof ping poweroff printf profile protocols ps pwd rc.0 rc.S rc.custom
rc.custom.gz rc.pcmcia reboot rescuept reset resolv.conf rm rmdir rmmod route
rsh rshd script sed serial serial_cs services setserial settings.s sh shared
slattach sleep sln sort split stab strings swapoff swapon sync tail tar tcic
tee telnet telnetd termcap test tomshexd tomsrtbt.FAQ touch traceroute true
tune2fs umount undeb-- unpack.s unrpm-- update utmp vi vi.help view watch
wc wget which xargs xirc2ps_cs yecho yes zcat

-- 
Alex McKenzie    alex@boxchain.com     http://boxchain.com
<quote who="Chris Reames">
> I know this is a Linux group, but have you thought about a DOS boot disk
> with Edit.
> Its not pretty, but you can import the text file to Word, WordPerfect,
> Kedit
> etc.
> Just a thought.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net]On
> Behalf Of John D. Tiedeman
> Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 09:01 PM
> To: nolug@joeykelly.net
> Subject: [Nolug] converting 486SX - correction
>
>
> On looking again, I found the message was "bad diskette boot record." I
> took out the diskette and it booted, and I found how to bring up notepad
> from the command line. But it takes an awfully long time to boot, then
> bring up Windows 3.1, then bring up anything else--the meeting could be
> half over before I'm ready! So I'd still like to know about a stripped
> version of Linux and where to get it. Or can I extract it from Fedora or
> some earlier Red Hat distro I already have? I do have a "business card"
> version of some other distro, but it's on a little CD-ROM and I have no
> means of reading a CD into the old system (my only external drive is
> USB, which wasn't invented when the Ambra was built).
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